Industry - Cubesats
Light a space dawn on the ground
You’re making a small satellite, getting ready to launch it as a secondary payload into Low Earth Orbit. It’s carrying sun sensors, star trackers, attitude control subsystems, and solar cells to power it all. You’ve miniaturized your technology and want to make sure it’s all mission-ready.
You’re looking to test your entire CubeSat before it leaves the ground, and you need to trust the results.
You need a light source with high spectral fidelity to accurately assess solar charging. To correct anomalies and degradation pathways before orbit.
G2V’s LED solar simulators output large-area, full-spectrum light replicating conditions found in outer space and beyond, so you can confidently test your entire solution right here on Earth, for conditions anywhere you can imagine.
You’re reaching for the stars. We’ll provide the sun.
Featured Innovation
Better testing illuminates the future with higher-quality predictions.
Your CubeSat depends on sunlight, whether it’s in star trackers, failsafe recovery systems, or solar battery charging. It’s going to be bathed in unfiltered sunlight for a good portion of its operational life, and you need to know if your satellite infrastructure can handle the spotlight.
G2V’s Sunbrick Class AAA LED solar simulator provides full-spectrum AM0 sunlight in a large 20 cm x 20 cm area and is tileable into arrays of arbitrarily large sizes. Whether your CubeSat is a cube 10 cm long in each dimension, or larger, the Sunbrick can give you the high-quality space solar simulation you need.
Some of the Sunbrick’s features include:
The Sunbrick gives you a full-scale space spectrum and trustworthy test results.
Featured Innovations
You’re building something great. Our solar replication technologies mean you don’t have to worry about accurate light.
You need to validate your devices on a limited budget without compromising on spectral quality. The Pico small-area solar simulator provides entry-level pricing while still providing G2V's exceptional spectral match, spatial uniformity or temporal stability, so you can reproduce the spectrum you need without breaking the bank. Add modules further in your development as your budget allows.
Ground-test your cubesat with reliable, affordable sunlight.
You're preparing for launch, and need to know that your device will work under the full range of spectral conditions it will see from launch to decommission. The Sunbrick large-area solar simulator provides a tileable solution to fit any size of cubesat, from 1U to 16U or larger. All while providing excellent spectral match and high tunability to reproduce spectra on Earth, in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), or beyond.
Outcome: CNES engineers were able to individually tune LED channels to probe device sensitivity under different illumination conditions. They made a custom jig for testing at different angles and were so happy with the results that they quickly loaned the instrument to colleagues for their work on solar modules.
Our maximum spectral range is currently from 350 nm to 1500 nm. While there are some LEDs that reach higher and lower wavelengths, their performance and cost are not quite at the level needed for a robust and competitive solar simulator solution. G2V is always monitoring LED material developments, however, so if a wider spectral range is needed for your application, get in touch and we can discuss the possibility of a custom solution, or the inclusion of such a solution in our product roadmap.
Knowledge Base
We make sure that our customers have access to resources that help them understand more not only about the products we offer, but related applications and standards. Visit the knowledge base to learn more about LED illumination, Class AAA standards, Photovoltaics and much more. Knowledge is solar power.
In our modern era, nearly every industry has standards that set baselines for ensuring its associated products are safe and suitable to perform intended tasks. Solar simulation – reproducing sunlight – is no different, having standards that specify the requirements for solar simulators, and...
Solar Simulation
Whether you’re developing a satellite to vet new spacecraft instrumentation, or preparing to set up a multi-satellite network for reliable space-to-ground data communication, you need a good solar testing solution.
You’re excited about your boundary-pushing work, and you’re passionate about minimizing risk and getting the details right. We share this same enthusiasm and strongly believe in customer relations as a partnership where we can achieve the best results together.
Get in touch so we can discuss how we can help your satellites detumble through better test equipment.
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For the latest information on the Sunbrick large area solar simulator please download the LED Solar Simulation Brochure. Included is everything you need to know about the Sunbrick, as well as a complete specification sheet. If you would like to know more please get in touch.